“Miss…”
With speck of blood around Tammy’s mouth corner, she looked terrifyingly ghastly. She looked at Florence with watery eyes and trembled slightly, “Please leave it alone. I was the one to break the rules and I deserve the punishment.”
Punishment? He almost killed her!
“I will protect you. And I won’t allow them to hit you again.”
Florence squatted down and embraced Tammy in her arms. She then raised her head and shot a fierce glance at the robust man with a stick in his hand, and then looked towards Victoria who was sitting on the sofa.
“Mom, it’s my own business and it has nothing to do with Tammy. If you want to punish someone, just punish me. Tammy should not be blamed.”
A touch of gloominess flashed across Victoria’s eyes when she saw Florence embrace Tammy in her arms.
Although her voice was elegant, it sounded merciless.
“You’re the Miss and she’s your maid. But she allowed you to run away, which caused you to get hurt. She didn’t take care of you well. Originally, I planned to cope with this when your wound is healed. But she didn’t report to us when Ernest sneaked into your room and even stood guard at the door for you. There are all her mistakes.”
Tammy was frightened when she heard the excoriation and shivered again, her face ghastly.
Her gaze towards Victoria was full of reverence and fright with a glimmer of despair in it.
Those who made a big mistake in the Fraser family would have a miserable end.
Bludgeoning was just a beginning.
“Tammy did those things for me.”
Florence hugged the shivering Tammy with distress, feeling more guilty and perturbed.
She looked at Victoria and said stubbornly, “You asked Tammy to take care of me. I’m her miss and she has to carry out my orders. It was me who ordered her to do those things. They have nothing to do with her. Mom, please, please don’t punish Tammy. She’s innocent. If you really want to punish or bludgeon someone, just bludgeon me. It was me who planned to run away and arranged the private meeting with Ernest. I did all of those things. They have nothing to do with any other person!”
Victoria’s lines of sights became slightly gloomier. She looked at Florence, “You’re my daughter, how will I bludgeon you? But since there are mistakes, there must be punishment. You’re the one who made those mistakes, but someone must be punished in place of you!”
Florence widened her eyes in shock and looked at Victoria dumbly.
She was the one who made the mistakes, but Tammy had to be punished because of her?
“It’s ridiculous! I will accept the consequences of my doings and I don’t need Tammy to be punished in place of me!”
“Flory, these are the rules of the Fraser family.” Victoria uttered the several words in a flat tone.
But it sounded quite ruthless.
Victoria waved her hand. Two maids immediately walked over from two sides and pulled Florence, dragging her up from the ground forcibly.
Losing the support, Tammy slumped onto the ground. As she got many wounds and bruises on her body, she felt a sharp pain when she felt down onto the ground and winced.
The tall, robust man who was holding a stick walked to her again and said in a cold voice, “Kneel down!”
Tammy shivered all over with despair written all over her face.
She bit her lower lip and stiffly straightened her back with difficulty and then knelt down onto the ground again.
“Pah!”
The stick hit on her back again.
Tammy’s weak body trembled violently along with it and it seemed like she would fall down onto the ground at any time.
Florence felt mentally collapsed and her throat dry and bitter.
She looked at the scene in disbelief. She hadn’t expected that someone would get punished for the mistakes she made.
Would Tammy be able to survive from the bludgeoning?
“Mom, let him stop! You can’t treat Tammy like this. She’s just a paid employee and she also enjoys the human rights. You don’t have the qualification to beat her like that!”
Flustered, Florence shouted desperately, trying to reason with Victoria. She was frightened by this scene. It was like in the feudal society in ancient times where the servants had to be punished for the mistakes made by their masters.
She and Tammy were all living in the 21st century and they were equal in every aspect except their family backgrounds.
But Victoria was not moved. There was no expressional change on her beautiful face and she looked so cold that Florence felt bitterly disappointed.
She replied, “All the servants in the Fraser family have sold their lives to us. If I want them to die, they will not be able to live until tomorrow.”
Florence froze, feeling a gush of chillness emerging from her feet.
She knew that the Fraser was rich and powerful and was one of the top forces in the world. But she hadn’t expected that it could be so unreasonable.
The family showed no respect to other people’s lives.
And she was the one who implicated Tammy.
Florence shivered uncontrollably and her face horrifyingly ghastly.
Along with the bludgeoning, the cloth on her back was gradually soaked in blood and it looked like she couldn’t withstand it any longer and would fall down at any moment.
“Mom, mom, please, please, don’t hit her. I was wrong. I won’t do that again. Please, please let go of Tammy. Don’t hit her again. She will die if this continues!”
Flustered, Florence begged Victoria. But out of her expectation, Victoria said something that made her more despairing and frightened at the next moment.
She said word by word casually yet mercilessly, “To be beat until death is a punishment for her.”
The words exploded in Florence’s mind like a bomb, making her mind totally go blank.
To beat her until death? To kill Tammy?
She had never imagined that her mistake would cause the other person to lose her life.
Victoria was gentle and amiable in usual times, but her means to punish others were really horrifyingly cruel.
Florence’s eyes were blurred by tears. Looking at Tammy who was bleeding more and more blood, Florence felt like she was thrown into an icy-cold icehouse.
Tammy’s voice had become hoarse after a long period of cries and shouting. She looked up at Florence and said with difficulty, “Miss, please leave me alone. I deserve the punishment and I have no resentments or regrets. It’s just that it’s really a pity that I didn’t help you.”
Tammy was seriously wounded, yet she was still worrying about Florence.
Florence felt her heart throbbing in pain and she felt so guilty for Tammy.
Was she qualified to let Tammy to sacrifice herself to such an extend? Even though Tammy was her maid, in Florence’s eyes, they were equal. Moreover, Tammy was her friend.
“Mom, what should I do to let you let go of Tammy?”
Florence wiped away the tears on her face and stared at Victoria.
Victoria gently shook her head, “The Fraser family has always put the shoe on the right foot.”
The determination in her tone of voice made Florence feel despairing.
She exerted great force push aside the two maids who were confining her and ran towards Victoria. She held up her hands with her cold hands and choked with sobs, begging, “Mom, I beg you, please let go of Tammy. If you beat her until death, I will owe her a life. I will be disturbed by this for the rest of my life and be tortured by guilty.”
Victoria inexplicably knitted her eyebrows, “If I let go of her now, it will go against with the rules of the Fraser family. You must be clear that the Fraser family is a big family and there are entangled benefit-based relationships in the family. If there are no rules, how can we subdue the subordinates and servants?”
Florence couldn’t understand this. Although rules were important, they were not important than human being’s life. Moreover, Tammy didn’t commit a felony.